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Grand Juror Hoppy Heidelberg and Producer Chris Emery of the film "A Noble Lie" discuss the connection in 1995 with Eric Holder and Jamie Gorelick of 9/11 Commission in the investigation of the Oklahoma City bombings.

Also it seems our friends over at "Controlled Demolition, Inc" did the clean up for that one too…?

Alex talks with Hoppy Heidelberg who was picked to be on an Oklahoma Grand Jury in 1995 and subsequently asked questions federal prosecutors avoided during the investigation of the bombing of the Alfred Murrah Federal Building. Heidelberg is featured in A Noble Lie, a documentary on the OKC bombing

On July 18, 2003, British biowarfare expert and UN weapons inspector David Kelly was found dead on Harrowdown Hill, near his home in Oxfordshire. Ruled a suicide by the official judicial inquiry chaired by Lord Hutton, now a group of British doctors is challenging the Attorney General's decision not to hold a coroner's inquest into the death, citing the overlooked, suppressed and modified evidence suggesting Dr. Kelly was murdered. This is the GRTV Backgrounder on The Death of Dr. David Kelly.

Appearing on the Alex Jones Show today, Michigan attorney Kurt Haskell said he plans to file a civil lawsuit against the government in the underwear bomber case now that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has suddenly reversed course and decided to plead guilty.

“Abdulmutallab’s reversal now means that Detroit Attorney Kurt Haskell’s contention that the plot was, as in almost every other terror case made public, a product of government entrapment, and that the US intelligence establishment was involved in the aborted attack, will now remain buried, at least for the time being,” Paul Joseph Watson wrote earlier today as news of the reversal was reported.

Abdulmutallab entered a plea of not guilty eight months ago at the start of his trial on charges he attempted to use of a weapon of mass destruction, conspired to commit an act of terrorism and attempted murder.

Al Jazeera's Abderrahim Foukara asks the former US defense secretary whether he made adequate preparations to avoid the thousands of lives lost in Iraq.

Foukara attempted to ask his question again. He wondered if Rumsfeld felt responsibility felt responsibility for "tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis killed by the coalition," as well as by the "criminals" who Rumsfeld had blamed for much of the violence in the country. Rumsfeld didn't even attempt to answer the question. He accused Foukara of asking him "pejorative" questions, and told him he though it was in his "being" and "nature" to be disrespectful."

"This is not about me," Foukara said. "If you want to attack me personally, fine, but give me the answer to the question."

11 paragraphs into this story this pops out. ... The operation that killed al-Awlaki was run by the U.S. military's elite counter terrorism unit, the Joint Special Operations Command – the same unit that got bin Laden.

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been stripped of legal immunity for acts of torture against US citizens authorized while he was in office. The 7th Circuit made the ruling in the case of two American contractors who were tortured by the US military in Iraq after uncovering a smuggling ring within an Iraqi security company. The company was under contract to the Department of Defense. The company was assisting Iraqi insurgent groups in the “mass acquisition” of American weapons. The ruling comes as Rumsfeld begins his book tour with a visit to Boston on Monday, September 26, and as new, uncensored photos of Abu Ghraib spark fresh outrage across Internet. Awareness is growing that Bush-era crimes went far beyond mere waterboarding.

"I was in the second week of Army basic training on 9/11. When my training platoon was called into formation and given the news, all of us were stunned. None of us had expected to fight a real war. It was college money and job skills that had called us into the armed forces, but in the space of a single morning, we had become the last generation of peacetime recruits".

“Ayo, I’m American born. Love America. Love my people. Love all mankind, all nationalities. You know, I think it’s just been recent where everybody started to feel like there was an elite group that runs everything, and everybody else was sheep, ignorant, making all ethnicities, colors, and creeds niggers, blind to what really is going on. So I say take off the wool from your eyes. Out with the Old America, in with the New. End all racism, all injustice, all oppression to poor people, any people anywhere in this planet. Let’s come together. A new day is rising.” – Nas, from his song, “We’re Not Alone.”

"It's really good to be here as when I last won 10 years ago on September 11 I was in DC watching the Pentagon burn from my hotel room," she told the audience at the awards ceremony in the Grosvenor House hotel in central London.

PJ Harvey on Tuesday night became the first artist to win the Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize twice, after first winning it the day of the 9/11 attacks a decade ago.

"A ranking Republican Senator has written to the Justice Department demanding to know why it quickly retracted court papers that called into serious question a key pillar of the criminal case against Bruce Ivins, the FBI’s prime suspect in the 2001 anthrax mail attacks.

Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, who has long questioned the legitimacy of the FBI’s findings in the case, wrote Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller this week, regarding a filing by Justice Department civil lawyers in July that noted that the Army’s biodefense center at Fort Detrick, Md., “did not have the specialized equipment in a containment laboratory that would be required to prepare the dried spore preparations that were used in the letters.”

In other words, the filing noted that Ivins’ lab, often referred to as the “hot suite”, did not contain the equipment needed to turn liquid anthrax into the refined powder that ended up being mailed to members of the Senate and reporters in the fall of 2001".

London, Sep 5, IRNA – American author and blogger Stephen Lendman says that the events of 9/11 was a “state-sponsored inside job” that drastically changed the world for the worse.

“Post-9/11, the world changed dramatically because of how the Bush administration used that event to wage war on humanity,” Lendman said.
“Included was attacking Afghanistan and Iraq, neither country having anything to do with the attack and Washington, of course, knew it,” he told IRNA ahead of the 10th anniversary of the 8/11 attacks in the US.

The atrocity, was used to “wage war on Islam, vilifying and persecuting Muslims for political advantage,” said the author, who has written extensively about dozens of falsely accused and imprisoned victims. All of whom, he says are “entirely innocent of all charges.”

In an interview with IRNA, he said that the events were also used domestically by the US to impose “a series of repressive police state laws, presidential directives and other measures.
The measures also included “illegal surveillance and much more, making America no fit place to live in. Under Obama, it's even worse,” Lendman said.

Have we already forgotten?
That was the first question that went through my mind after hearing the news that NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg had banned faith leaders from the upcoming 9/11 ceremony. Bloomberg has, over recent years, been decisively indecisive on the role of faith at this tragic site. He defended the display of the 20 foot tall cross standing in the midst of the debris of the Twin Towers. He also defended the right of the building of the mosque near Ground Zero. But, for this pivotal meeting, Bloomberg came up short.

For the tenth anniversary ceremony of this great national tragedy: A gaggle of politicians are welcome; but faith leaders are not. Bloomberg’s office defends this by saying that the focus this year will be on the families of the victims.